Card index



Patented Dec. 25, 1923.

. PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT C. RUSSELL, OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

CARD

INDEX.

Application filed November 1Q, 1922. Serial In. 600,930.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Roam C. Russian), a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Pittsburglnin the county of Allegheny and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in CardIndexes; and I do hereby declare the followin to be a full, clear, andexact description 0 the invention, such as will enable others skilledinthe art to which it a rtains to make and use the same.

T is invention relates to improvements in card indexes of the visible typarticularly to means which Wlll operate to protect the free edgeportion of the cards,, one object of the invention being to provide aprotector which may readily and quickly be applied and remova'blysecured to a card of the index and operate to protect the free edgeportion of the card from becoming soiled or injured; which maybe easilycleaned, and which may also be utilized tp hold another or supplementalcard.

With this and other objects. in view, the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction and combinations of parts as hereinafterset forth and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings,-

Figure 1 is a rear view of an indEx showing the application of myimprovements thereto.

Figure 2 is a front view of the same.

Figure 3 is a front view of one of the cards and its support with theprotector removed.

Figure 4 is a view .of a supplemental card.

Figure 5 is a perspective view of the protector.

Figure 6 is a 'transverse sectional view showing the protector in placeon an index card and ,operating to also attach another or supplementalcard to the index card.

Figure' Fi an enlarged detail view illustrating one form of fasteningmeans for the protector to a card and Figure 8 is an e ar ed detail-viewshowin a difierent form 0 fastening means.

In Figures 1, 2 and 3 of the drawin and also in Figure 6, I have shown acom ined index card 1 and at! ext 2, the card having hinge connectionwit thesupport and'the latter provided with lateral tongues 3 to enterguide-ways in a suitable holder not shown. The su port member 2 isprovided with an upwar ly projecting tongue 4 and and more a slot 5 isprovided for the accommodation of the ton e 4 of another combined devicewhereby t e combined devices may when assembled in a holder, haveinterlocking connection with each other. The construction is such-thatthe card member 1 will overlie a portion of the support member 2 andform in effect a shallow pocket 6.

.My improved protector 7 is made of flexible and referablv transparentmaterial, such as eel uloid and is bent to form ap roximately parallelmembers 8 and 9, the utter having ater width than the other. By

reason 0 the flexibility of the material composing the protector 7 itmay be caused to grasp the lower portion of the card to which it isapplied but this grasping or clip action is not epended upon to retainthe protector in place on the card. When the protector is applied to thecard, the wider member of the same will preferably be disposed in frontof the card and this member is so out near its respective ends as toprovide resilient tongues 10 which will projectthrough openings 11 inthe card and may enter notches 12 in the free edge of the rear member 8of the protector, thus locking said protector to the card but permittingits removal when necessary by'merely pressing forward the spring orresilient tongues 10. In the embodiment of the invention shown in Figureeach tongueis made approximately V- shape by cutting a V-shaped slot inthe material of the protector near each end thereof, thus providing asingle sprin tongue near each end of the protector. l f desired however,two spring tongues such as indistated at 10'- Figure B may be rovidednear each end of the protector an the form of the openings in the cardand in the back member of the protector may be changed accordingly.

The rotector 7 not only serves to guard the car against soiling orinjury but it may also be utilized to receive and hold a sulpplementalcard 13 disposed in front of tie main card 1 and provided with openings14 for the passa of the spring tongues of the protector. en asupplemental card is thus mounted on a main card, the upper edge of saidsupplemental card will enter the shallow pocket 6 formed near thejuncture of said main card with the support 2 as indicated in Figure 6and thus the upper ortion of the supplemental card will be eld in placeagainst the main card 1.

Having frilly described my invention what" I claim as new antl desire toseeure by Letters Patent, is:

1 A protector for the edge portion of an index card, consisting of :1single piece of resilient material bent upon itself to provideapproximately parallel members, one of said members providedintermediate of its ends with a resilient projection which normallyprojects beyond the face of said member, whereby it may spring intoengagement with a shoulder on a card disposed between said members.

2. A protector for the edge portion of an index card, consisting of asingle piece of resilient material bent to form two approximatelyparallel members, one of said members having a tongue to pass throughthe card and the other member constructed to permit interlockingrelation of said tongue thereto.

3. A protector for the edge portion 01" an index card consisting of asingle piece of resilient material bent to forr'ntwo appr0ximatelyparallel members, one wider than the 2' other, the wider member havinginwardly projecting resilient tongues and the narrower member havingnotches to receive said tongues.

4. The combination with an index card and a support therefor. saidsupport having a part disposed approximately parallel with a portion ofthe card and cooperating with the latter to form a pocket, of a mem, berengaging the lower or free portion of the card and serving to protectthe latter, and a supplemental card supported at one edge by said memberand having its other edge portion entering said pocket.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presenceof two sulr scribing witnesses.

ROBERT C. RUSSELL,

\Vitnesses:

ROBERT ALEXANDER Dorms, BELLE VVILHELM.

Certifica'tepf Correction.

I t is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,478,766, grimte-dDecember 25, 1923, upon the application of Robert C. Russell, ofPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for an improvement, in Curd Indexes," errorsappear in the printed specification requiring correction as follows:Page 1, line 30, for the Word runr read front, and lines 33 and 34, forthe word front. marl War, and line 10:2, for the words in ,front read atHm rear; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with thesevorrentiuns therein that the same ma conform u) the record of the casein the Patent Oflice.

Signed and sealer] this 6th day of May, A. D. 1924.

[.nAL.) KARL FENNING,

Acting Gammz'qsiouer of Patents.

